Government data, commercial cloud: Will public access suffer?

Borowitz, Mariel

doi:10.1126/science.aat5474

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Technology, Data and New Models for Sustainably Managing Ocean Resources

Lubchenco

Haugan

2023

The Blue Compendium

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We are in the middle of an explosion in new data on the ocean, creating enormous potential for advances in our understanding and stewardship of ocean resources. An exponential increase in the number and variety of ocean observing systems and other new data sources has created the prospect of a digital ocean ecosystem. Advances in processing techniques and visualisation are rapidly expanding our ability to extract information from those data, and are enabling a wide array of tools to provide real-time information in actionable form to decision-makers, such as policymakers, resource managers, resource users, consumers and citizens.

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Technology, Data and New Models for Sustainably Managing Ocean Resources

Lubchenco

Haugan

2023

The Blue Compendium

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Improving data access democratizes and diversifies science

Nagaraj

Shears

Vaan

2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The foundation of the scientific method rests on access to data, and yet such access is often restricted or costly. We investigate how improved data access shifts the quantity, quality, and diversity of scientific research. We examine the impact of reductions in cost and sharing restrictions for satellite imagery data from NASA’s Landsat program (the longest record of remote-sensing observations of the Earth) on academic science using a sample of about 24,000 Landsat publications by over 34,000 authors matched to almost 3,000 unique study locations. Analyses show that improved access had a substantial and positive effect on the quantity and quality of Landsat-enabled science. Improved data access also democratizes science by disproportionately helping scientists from the developing world and lower-ranked institutions to publish using Landsat data. This democratization in turn increases the geographic and topical diversity of Landsat-enabled research. Scientists who start using Landsat data after access is improved tend to focus on previously understudied regions close to their home location and introduce novel research topics. These findings suggest that policies that improve access to valuable scientific data may promote scientific progress, reduce inequality among scientists, and increase the diversity of scientific research.

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Government data, commercial cloud: Will public access suffer?

Abstract: New data handling models may affect use for research

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Technology, Data and New Models for Sustainably Managing Ocean Resources

Technology, Data and New Models for Sustainably Managing Ocean Resources

Improving data access democratizes and diversifies science

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